Lantana Boy, 8, Drowns In Lake Worth

July 16, 1995

An 8-year-old Lantana boy drowned Saturday afternoon in a lake near his grandparents' home in Lake Worth when he tried to swim out to retrieve a ball.

Police said Nicholas Frame was playing with two friends near the 5400 block of Winchester Woods Drive, where his grandparents live, when he swam out about 15 feet from the shore of the lake and disappeared.

The boy's grandfather, Ronald Frame, and a neighbor swam out to save Nicholas and found him face down at the bottom. The neighbor administered CPR until Palm Beach County Fire Rescue officials arrived at 3:15 p.m. and took the boy to JFK Medical Center. He was pronounced dead half an hour later.